The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.